The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

“what if more apps”

Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

dog daycare place sent a photo that nails the feeling of opening this app for the first time in over a week

Paranoid, from the Greek "para", meaning "beside" and "noid" which is some kind of uhh... pizza demon.

Political and corporate spokespeople now regularly treat a request for comment from the mainstream media as an opportunity to drop a free ad into the middle of the story. Bad faith non-responses should just be discarded, with a note that they declined to respond to the substance of the question.

2025 was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists, the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

"ICE’s public affairs arm has rapidly transformed into an influencer-style media machine, churning out flashy videos of tactical operations and immigration raids." A chilling story from @joyceshlee.bsky.social & @drewharwell.com 🎁 wapo.st/4s6YnC5

5/In December, a Model Y crashed into a tree on I-95 in Virginia during a snow storm. A state trooper smashed open the windows to rescue the driver. The press release notes that the doors did not work, and the rescue was captured on dash cam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Oi...

6/GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Dino-Riders (1988)

More state-sponsored capitalism. This time, the government dictates capital return.

Streisand Effect is gonna be replaced by the Weiss Effect, innit?

It looks like the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was accidentally released in Canada. It'll be really interesting to compare this to whatever version Weiss might eventually release.

Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things. www.ms.now/news/america...

Remarkable work here by @danahull.bsky.social

"'If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,' Alfonsi wrote."

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

"let's do the fucking news"

I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

10 years ago this tweet would’ve gotten a 21-episode order on CBS

Interviews with 1200+ government workers about DOGE: “.. staff searched for words they hoped would save the work they believed in. .. So he .. began deleting: Any mention of ‘carbon.’ ‘Sustainability.’ The word ‘green.’” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader. “Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Cleaning up the house this morning and came across a copy of Jane Mayer's book, "Dark Money", on how the Kochs pioneered new ways to use money for political influence. My first thought was that this 2016 classic might now be outdated, but an hour later I saw this: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

I hate it here

Never count out Touchdown Elon techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/e...

"Next, he and Rogers are writing and starring in a movie based on the podcast Search Engine’s episode 'Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain?'"

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this is literally a running bit on Parks & Rec

I will say this for Anthropic: they are at least smart enough to figure out if you want the ultimate red team, go to a newsroom www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

i am going to become the grink

Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...

I don't think it's a stretch to say this is a big gamble and a risky moment for Rivian. Suddenly and massively expanding the geographic area that its hands-free tech can be used with limitations like these open up all sorts of paths for misuse (intentional or not).

Yeah, that’ll work www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

that's weird i was informed that Ford was "following the customer" www.autonews.com/ford/an-ford...

"...even in states where it is still legal."

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

still waiting for the Eric Adams Wrapped

before you all log off, Music Hall of Williamsburg’s landlord isn’t renewing the lease www.brooklynvegan.com/music-hall-o...

I know this is small peanuts but I have to complain about this again. The way that DoorDash makes it hard to tip NYC delivery drivers is so disgusting to me. I wrote this last year and sort of forgot about it — until tonight, when I ran into the same issue. www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/241...